waterlog

"Beavers can flood and waterlog fields, feed on agricultural crops like maize, as well as damage and fell trees such as cricket bat willow."

Not at Marvel's oversaturation – we passed the waterlog point long ago.

“Waterlog,” narrated with suitably wonkish enthusiasm by Mike Cooper, is Deakin’s account of his pond-hopping exodus, in which he dives headlong into the historical and literary associations of the various moats, canals, lochs, lakes, rivers and springs along his route.

For one thing, the ice cubes could still waterlog your plant if they melt faster than they can be absorbed, she says.

In Waterlog, his celebrated chronicle of swimming through Britain’s waterways, the naturalist Roger Deakin described swimming as having a transformative, Alice-in-Wonderland quality; it was an activity that had power over his perception of self and of time.